Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Alaska Marine Highway System operates along the south-central coast of the state, the eastern Aleutian Islands and the Inside Passage of Alaska and British Columbia, Canada. Ferries serve communities in Southeast Alaska that have no road access, and the vessels can transport people, freight, and vehicles.
M/V Tustumena is a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System. [1]Tustumena was constructed in 1963 by Christy Corporation in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin [2] and refurbished in 1969 in San Francisco.
AK-7 north overlaps Glacier Highway: 13.15: 21.16: Ferry Terminal Road — Auke Bay Ferry Terminal: Alaska Marine Highway: 39.01: 62.78: Dead end: Beyond Echo Cove access; northern terminus of Glacier Highway: Gap in route : Haines: Haines: 0.00: 0.00: Front Street to Haines Ferry Terminal: To Alaska Marine Highway; southern terminus of Haines ...
The Alaska Marine Highway System was formed in tandem with statehood. In the early 1960s, Alaska voters had approved bond packages to build four ferries — the Malaspina, the Matanuska and the ...
MV Malaspina, colloquially known as the Mal, is a mainline ROPAX ferry and the original Malaspina-class vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System. Malaspina is named after the Malaspina Glacier, which, in turn, is named after Captain Don Alessandro Malaspina, an Italian navigator and explorer who explored the northwest coast of North America in 1791.
The ferry system, taking advantage of her ocean-going status, sends the vessel on a monthly trans-Gulf of Alaska ("cross-gulf") voyage beginning in Juneau and concluding in Kodiak. On this voyage, the Kennicott is able to provide service to the isolated Gulf of Alaska community of Yakutat and is the only vessel to do so. The cross-gulf voyages ...
The Alaska Marine Highway and several other Alaska highways or routes are recognized as "highways" eligible for federal funding by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). [3] The Marine Highway was declared a National Scenic Byway by the FHWA on June 13, 2002; [4] and later declared an All-American Road on September 22, 2005. [5]
Alaska has a well-developed ferry system, known as the Alaska Marine Highway, which serves the cities in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska as well as in the Alaska Peninsula. The system also operates a ferry service from Bellingham, Washington and Prince Rupert, British Columbia in Canada up the Inside Passage to Skagway .